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Originally Posted by RichardC
My wife and I are coming to TV tomorrow to hopefully purchase. We were there in Feb and did some scouting. Most of the activity seems to be north of 466A but now with Brownwood open more homes at more reasonable prices are closer to there.
I'm sure that when people bought in Gilchrist and Pinellas when it was new it was the same. How long did it take to really get built up. We don't want to be traveling long distances in our Golf cart to go shopping and to Sumter Landing. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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Bless your dear hearts, you are lost, just like the rest of us were when first we entered this huge labyrinth of similar looking homes and beautiful roads.
There hasn't been new homes built north of 466 for a good while. The new growth has moved south and all new building is now south of 466A, but not yet to Brownwood town center, but heading in that direction.
Gilchrist and Pinelles are new villages and not yet a year old.
Here is my advice to you. Buy a Villages map from Villages Mercantile, Publix or some other place and don't leave home without it. Contact a sales rep for the villages and if you don't immediatly like him/her, ask for another one.
Remember this from someone who wants you to be happy here.
There are sinkholes and lightning strikes, alligators, love bugs and bad, BAD drivers and a lot of oldish people live hereand the developers will not take contingency offers on a new home and it cannot be financed in any way but conventional. There is a SEPARATE charge called the bond on a new home for the infrastructure that is unlike any place you have ever lived. It is about 23K on a designer, a middle sized home.
The Daily Sun has a different slant than that of The Orlando Sentinel and The Tampa Bay Times. There are many decent and not expensive restaurants but nothing like New York City for food experience.
The developer is very rich...I mean very rich and no one I know has ever met him. He also makes large political contributions.
Some people do NOT like him. Those people don't know him either.
Most of us are VERY happy here and I hope you will be too.
Kindest wishes,
Gracie